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Me. >> jealous, resentful and on the morning of december 1st luring chanin out of her house with a phony story about a broken-down car. remember clay texted chanin, asked her to take the kids to school, then shut off his phone to avoid detection, or so said the prosecutor. a killer laying a trap. >> taking the children out of the house, steaki inin ining -- out the house, entering the house, waiting for ms. starbuck to return. >> they played that snippet of a 911 call that the prosecution said confirmed the time of the attack. >> 911, what are you reporting? >> then an expert told the jury abo...

A killer, judging from the story chanin's friends were telling, might have been building up to an attack. during the last six months of chanin's life, said summer stark, her friend was convinced somebody was out to get her. >> chanin's house had been broken into and minor things. moving the things or the barbecue would be messed up, knocked over, lights would be unscrewed. you could tell somebody had been in, but things weren't missing sometimes. just odd things that you would notice just weren't right when you would come home. >> chanin filed police reports. the incidents were investigated bu...

Was communicating with electronically most of which she had met one on one and we can verify that. >> every one of them a possible suspect. that's what clay's public defenders thought. >> well, investigators had run down leads from chanin's phone the lawyers said. that crack team didn't follow up on any of the potential leads from her laptop. it was there. they had it, right? >> it was there. they swabbed it. at some point somebody suspected something. i'm not quite sure why they didn't follow up. but isn't this all just a smoke screen? because the evidence is pretty clear that clay starbuck's...

>> we obtained records that indicated they were at work and at school. we eliminated them as suspects. >> only one man left standing now, but not for long. on february 6th, 2012, two months after they found the body of chanin starbuck, they arrested clay and charged him with murder. it was the moment chanin's siblings and mother had been waiting for. >> when clay was arrested, it was a big relief. >> we felt as though clay should have been arrested right off the bat. >> i knew that he was the one that murdered her. >> it was, of course, a victory for the detectives, too, but it came at a terri...

But it couldn't have come from the youngest, marshall, who learned in the process that he was not clay's biological son, was conceived during a relationship chanin had after their first divorce. murder, as we say, exposes all kinds of secrets. >> the evidence they have is trace dna. it's like i go up to you and touch you on the hand. it's that small. >> but there is starbuck dna. >> yeah. >> and there are some who have said, if it's not him, was it one of you guys. >> there's starbuck dna in the starbuck house. >> kind of funny how that worked. we all lived there. my dad lived there months bef...